\contentsline {chapter}{Table of Contents}{i}{Doc-Start}
\contentsline {chapter}{List of Figures}{iv}{chapter*.2}
\contentsline {chapter}{List of Abbreviations}{v}{chapter*.2}
\contentsline {chapter}{Chapters}{1}{chapter*.2}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {1}Introduction}{1}{chapter.1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.1}Research Questions}{2}{section.1.1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.2}Expected Contributions}{3}{section.1.2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.3}Structure of this document}{3}{section.1.3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1.4}Acknowledgements}{3}{section.1.4}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {2}Background and Literature Review}{4}{chapter.2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.1}Recommender Systems}{4}{section.2.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1.1}Formalisation of the Recommendation Problem}{4}{subsection.2.1.1}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Collaborative Filtering}{5}{section*.3}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Content-based Filtering}{5}{section*.4}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Context-based Filtering}{6}{section*.5}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Demographic Filtering}{6}{section*.6}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Hybrid Filtering}{6}{section*.7}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1.2}Music Recommender System}{6}{subsection.2.1.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1.3}The long tail}{8}{subsection.2.1.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1.4}Recommender System and Social Web}{8}{subsection.2.1.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1.5}Social Music Recommender System}{9}{subsection.2.1.5}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.2}Social Tagging in Music Recommendation and Discovery}{10}{section.2.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.1}Social Tags}{10}{subsection.2.2.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.2}Tagging Music}{10}{subsection.2.2.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.3}Motivation for Tagging}{11}{subsection.2.2.3}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Memory and Context}{11}{section*.8}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Task Organisation}{11}{section*.9}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Social Signaling}{11}{section*.10}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Social Contribution}{11}{section*.11}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Play and Competition}{11}{section*.12}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Opinion Expression}{12}{section*.13}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Easy and Pleasurable}{12}{section*.14}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.4}Visual representations}{13}{subsection.2.2.4}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Tag Cloud}{13}{section*.15}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.5}Tagging incentives}{16}{subsection.2.2.5}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.6}Social dynamics}{17}{subsection.2.2.6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.7}Tag quality}{17}{subsection.2.2.7}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2.8}Generative models}{18}{subsection.2.2.8}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.3}Semantic Web}{19}{section.2.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3.1}Semantic Applications}{19}{subsection.2.3.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3.2}Ontology}{19}{subsection.2.3.2}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Ontology and Software Architecture}{20}{section*.16}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{FOAF Ontology}{21}{section*.17}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Ontologies related to Music}{21}{section*.18}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.4}User Modeling}{22}{section.2.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.4.1}User Modeling and Semantic Transparency}{23}{subsection.2.4.1}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {3}Pilot Study: Music Recommendations for Events on Social Networks}{24}{chapter.3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.1}Abstract}{24}{section.3.1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.2}Introduction}{25}{section.3.2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.3}Facebook API}{26}{section.3.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.3.1}Profiles, Pages and Groups}{26}{subsection.3.3.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.3.2}Events}{27}{subsection.3.3.2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.4}Significance of the Experiment}{28}{section.3.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4.1}Hypothesis}{29}{subsection.3.4.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4.2}Music Valley Application}{29}{subsection.3.4.2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.5}Design of the Study}{30}{section.3.5}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.5.1}Methodology}{30}{subsection.3.5.1}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Dataset}{30}{section*.19}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Facebook Application}{31}{section*.20}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Subjects}{31}{section*.21}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.5.2}Recommender Model}{31}{subsection.3.5.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.5.3}Recommendation strategy}{32}{subsection.3.5.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.5.4}Use Cases}{32}{subsection.3.5.4}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Artist Recommendation}{32}{section*.22}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Playlist Generation}{32}{section*.23}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Neighbour Recommendation}{33}{section*.24}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{Other Recommendations}{33}{section*.25}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.5.5}User Feedback}{33}{subsection.3.5.5}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.6}Problems Faced during Application Development}{34}{section.3.6}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.7}Schedule}{36}{section.3.7}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.8}Conclusions}{36}{section.3.8}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {4}Plan for Completion}{37}{chapter.4}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.1}Studies}{37}{section.4.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1.1}Study One: Social Music Recommender Systems}{37}{subsection.4.1.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1.2}Study Two: Multimodal Music Mood Classification for Music Recommender Systems}{37}{subsection.4.1.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1.3}Study Three: Development of Mood Ontology to bridge Semantic Gaps in Music Recommender Systems}{38}{subsection.4.1.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1.4}Study Four: Evaluation of Mood Music Recommender Systems}{38}{subsection.4.1.4}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.2}Recruitment of Participants}{39}{section.4.2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.3}Expected Contributions}{39}{section.4.3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.4}Thesis Outline}{39}{section.4.4}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.5}Publications}{40}{section.4.5}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.6}Submissions to Relevant Conferences and Journals}{40}{section.4.6}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.7}Future Personal and Skills Development}{41}{section.4.7}
\contentsline {chapter}{Appendices}{43}{table.4.1}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {A}Personal and Skills Development}{43}{appendix.A}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {A.1}Participation in Conferences and Workshops}{43}{section.A.1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {A.2}Participation in Relevant Industry Exhibitions and Seminars}{43}{section.A.2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {A.3}Participation in LI Sessions}{43}{section.A.3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {A.4}Other Work}{45}{section.A.4}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {B}Pilot Study Materials}{47}{appendix.B}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {C}Research Paper at WOMRAD}{49}{appendix.C}
